Anti-war activists planning to 'take over' White House
Online announcement asks protesters to 'storm' executive mansion March 15
by Ron Strom
February 28 2006
World Net Daily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49026
A leading anti-Iraq war group is advertising a plan to storm the White House next month and "take it over" until the Bush administration vacates the premises.
United for Peace and Justice, which claims to represent 1,300 local and national anti-war organizations, has a page on its site advertising the March 15 action.
"We are taking over the White House until they leave," the announcement says.
The press release is entitled "Take the White House by Storm" – though elsewhere on the site a statement calls the storming "a peaceful event."
"It is our duty and the duty of the United Nations to rescue the people of the world from the U.S. dictators," states the release. "Murder for occupation and theft of land is illegal. Murder of journalists is criminal. Remove the traitors who have stolen the U.S. budget and used it to commit international crimes against humanity.
"If we were being bombed and our journalists were being murdered here in the U.S. by a foreign country's military, we would hope that the people of that country would stop what they are doing and go to their president's office and demand that it was stopped. If we were the ones burying thousands and thousands of our family members and watching the destruction of the homes, schools, churches and offices that we had worked for decades to build, we would hope that someone, somewhere would care enough to do something for us. We must stop the criminals in our government NOW."
The national coordinator for United for Peace told WND it allows many of the hundreds of affiliated organization to post information about events on its website, though the umbrella group does not endorse every activity.
A line on the statement says: "Events listed are not necessarily endorsed or organized by UFPJ."
Said the organization's Leslie Cagan: "We ask member groups that are planning activities, especially around the third anniversary of the war, to list them on our website. But we don't necessarily screen everything posted. … This is not our activity."
Cagan admitted the language in the announcement is "a little inflammatory" and told WND she would look into the group that posted the release as well as the event. Darrow Boggiano, from an organization called Political Cooperative, is the name listed as a contact for the event. The group was formed in January to "combine social justice organizations and political parties for a radical change in government."
The protesters plan to appeal to the United Nations and all member nations to help oust the Bush administration.
"Bring signs that say 'U.N. SOS' and 'Leave Now,' or whatever you would like to say," states the announcement.
"The administration is criminal, and if they will not step down, we must storm in [and] show them how many of us do not accept a criminal government."
The page includes an RSVP link where people interested in helping storm the White House can let the event organizations know.
• Storm the White House
12:00 AM
Multi-Day Event
Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave.
- Weeklong Event Focusing on March 20th as Major Protest Day in Washington and Around the World at U.N. offices
- Demand U.N. Help to Remove Bush Regime and Provide International CriminalCourt for Detainees Held and Tortured with No Rights to Any Court, accordingto U.S. Government.
- For More Info - http://www.PoliticalCooperative.Org
3 comments:
Storming the White House sounds like a dangerous idea, and likely to get people arrested and or hurt. Much as a person would not like to find their house "stormed" by strangers, I am sure the President, his family, and the Secret Service would disaprove of this as well.
I would recomend getting a permit, and protesting on the sidewalk outside.
Then start concentrating on deciding who you would want to vote for in the next presidential election. But this "Storm the White House" sounds like a disaster in the making.
fuck the permit.
"a disaster in the making"? We are already in the middle of a serious disaster. If our elected leaders lack the balls to remove the bush administration, We the People, will have to do it.
Wait for the elction? You must be joking. 1. How sure are you that there WILL be another election. and 2. the elections since 2000 demonstrate that the republicans and their corporations can't be trusted with running elections.
Remember that with our new electronic voting, you're counting on the same people who you are trying to vote out to tell you who won the election. You do the math.
Much as I like political participation, no way am I going to recommend some well meaning kids try to "storm" the white house. That is a good way to get these kids shot or arrested.
Older people like me and you don't have our entire lives ahead of us like they do. And there is no way I would recommend my kids do something that might end up with them getting hurt or killed. No way, and not when they can get some permit and demonstrate AND not get killed.
As far as waiting for the election, no, actually, I am not joking. The republicans will have had 8 years in office by then. The mood of the people will determine if the next 4 years after that will be a democratic or republican administration.
Impeachment is not an option. Not enough elected members of congress agree that he has committed an impeachable offence.
As far as removing him with some sort of direct action, well, that may be necessary in a third world country that has not system of elections and balances of power, but that does not seem to be the case here.
I hadn't heard anything about this electronic voting. What is the deal with that? I wasn't aware that there was much enthusiasm for that anymore. Most people, my self included probably want to keep a paper trail. I know George Bush does. Those paper votes are the only thing that saved his ass from getting spanked down in Florida.
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